Where has everyone gone?

Thought i’d pop in to say hello.

Yes,..it has gone very quite on the JF forum. I noticed this a very long time ago actually. I wonder if it’s just that as time passes, people move on. They get older, have different commitments and take on responsibilities that they never had before. I’m guessing that not many new people join up after them because things have changed a lot since FSX came out in terms of social media, technology and entertainment.

I myself haven’t posted here for probably getting on near three years give or take a few months. but that’s mainly because I eventually decided to get rid of the noisy PC with it’s fans whirring away that I built in order to play FSX. 

FSX always did require some sort of maintenance with a tweak here and a tweak there. I kind of just had enough really. When I think of all the time and money I dedicated on FSX over the years. Radar Contact 4, Traffic X, Real weather program addons, adding extra RAM, updating graphics cards and messing about with settings and config files, it eventually did my head in. Even though I got it to run pretty good in the end, I decided I’d call it a day. Six years of FSX was enough, it was tired, getting old and the Aces team at Microsoft even chucked the towel in. 

Social media began to really take off and Facebook is where most of the conversations these days take place. Forums are (arguably), becoming old and tired too I think. 

Technology is constantly changing. Fast forward in time and along came these wonderful little devices called Tablets. They get faster and faster with each new release and fantastic screen resolutionThere is so much more choice nowadays in which to entertain yourself. I now get my quick fix of flight simming on my iPad by playing with Infinite Flight which to my mind is the next best thing on a mobile device. Aerofly 2 is due out soon and I know that even the good folks here at Just Flight have produced a couple of aircraft for the current original Aerofly app.

Ok, flight simulator on a mobile device will never give you that truly immersive experience you get with a large desktop screen, and a yoke/joystick, especially for those people who want to be real pilots, and I admit, I sometimes miss that. But in all honestly, apps like Infinite Flight for mobile devices are surprisingly very good and challenging and the graphics are amazing and all for the price of a budget DVD.

I think this is the appeal and attraction of much of gaming today, convenient, small devices at the touch of a button anytime, anywhere.